Anastasius II of Byzantium

Anastasius II of Byzantium (685-1 June 719) was the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 713 to 715, succeeding Philippikos of Byzantium and preceding Theodosius III of Byzantium.

Biography
Anastasius was born to the House of Artemios, and he served as a bureaucrat and imperial secretary. After the Opsician forces of the Theme of Opsikion blinded and overthrew Emperor Philippikos of Byzantium, Anastasius was acclaimed the new emperor. After failing to reach a peaceful conclusion to warfare with the Umayyad Caliphate, Anastasius decided to restore Constantinople's walls and rebuild the fleet. He destroyed the Umayyad naval stores at Rhodes, but he was later overthrown by the Opsician theme forces, who were upset by his strict measures. They acclaimed Theodosius III of Byzantium as the new emperor.